It is called “Next generation healthcare”, it is an “infrastructure of innovation in healthcare with which the Milan Polytechnic will establish itself within Mind”. This was stated by Alberto Cesare Redaelli, director of the Bioengineering Section, Politecnico di Milano at the event ‘Collaborate to compete: the Federated innovation @Mind model for the development of the country system’, organized in Rome by the network of about 40 companies set up in the district of Mind (Milan innovation district) to create innovation projects.
The infrastructure will have “a space of 5 thousand square meters – continues the professor – in which laboratories that will recreate care settings (patient’s home, operating room, rehabilitation gym) and technological laboratories that summarize the skills that are inside will coexist of the University: from artificial intelligence, to environmental and wearable sensors, from the metaverse to digital therapeutics and, obviously, telemedicine, digital twins. They are all interconnected technologies that we want to ground”.
“We are an anchor that is establishing itself within Mind – specifies Redaelli – and we plan to do so in the coming months with the closure of a path that makes the public-private partnership a strong point” thanks to the National Recovery Plan and resilience (Pnrr) of the ministry. “The project – explains the professor – is called Next generation healthcare, not Next generation hospital”. This “not because hospitals are not marked, but because the patient journy” is important, “as Giuseppe Banfi recalled”, scientific director of Irccs Galeazzi-S. Ambrogio and full professor of clinical biochemistry, Vita Salute University San Raffaele, Milan. “If we want to face the health challenge of tomorrow – Redaelli points out – we have to follow the supply chain, starting from prevention and education and ending up in the patient’s home. In this, digital technology is fundamental because the ‘journey’ – he observes – is such if the data follows the patient, the information travels with him. This is the challenge, together with that of establishing a series of enabling technologies, which a University like PoliMil develops by vocation and nature”.
“This infrastructure – argues the professor – is also the way in which the polytechnic lands on Mind”. Even if one of the “metropolitan campuses is 3 km from Mind, the Bovisa-La Masa campus, health within the Polytechnic is becoming pervasive, we know that it is one of the driving forces of the European economy. From this perspective, in landing in Mind, the great vocation to health forms a system within the economic engine that is Milan”.
The Politecnico arrives at Mind with the University of Milan. “The infrastructure – specifies Redaelli – is developed by PoliMi, but it was shared because the University of Milan will also be in Mind and because we are complementary. We, like PoliMi, have a more marked vocation for innovation and technology while the University is more about life sciences in the broadest sense. Together we are 4,000 professors”, thousands of students “who study in areas that are connected to topics that will be developed on Mind”.
At the center “is the company. It may seem obvious in a public-private partnership – observes Redaelli – It is true that we must build this on an equal footing with businesses, but the reality of the facts is that we want to do much more because we want to help businesses in the last mile, in most difficult part of product validation and certification, and we want to do it as open innovation, and the synergy with Mind is very strong”. The intent “is not only to collaborate with major partners – the professor remarks – but also with local businesses in the broadest sense because we offer services, structures, portals for these companies also with spin-offs and start-ups of our ecosystem. We know the importance of having a fertile background in startups and spin-offs. In this Lombardy is lucky with 5 of the best incubators. We believe that an infrastructure like the one we have designed – concludes Redaelli – is a showcase and an enhancement of our spin-offs and start-ups, but that these too enhance our businesses”.
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